Fifty-five years of truck driver Bert Dunn\u2019s life were spent on the road.<\/p>\n
Now retired, having completed his last run to Adelaide in 2016, the Miners Rest local was inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame over the weekend.<\/p>\n
As one of the road transport industry\u2019s highest honours, the award celebrates service and achievement in that community.<\/p>\n
Mr Dunn was one of over 50 people welcomed into the Wall this year, based at Alice Springs\u2019s National Road Transport Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
In the early 1960s, he started driving trucks to Melbourne and Sydney, transporting wood and potatoes for his dad\u2019s pulp wood business.<\/p>\n
Running his own truck a few years later, Mr Dunn moved livestock and refrigerated freight around Australia. Later, with a fleet of 12 trucks, he headed Dunn\u2019s Transport.<\/p>\n
He said the hours were long and the work difficult, but he has happy memories.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe many adventures and the lifelong friendships I created made it all worthwhile,\u201d Mr Dunn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very honoured to be inducted and to be placed up there with all the previous people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He encourages anyone passing through Alice Springs to visit the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very good. Everyone should pull in and have a look at it because it\u2019s very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fifty-five years of truck driver Bert Dunn\u2019s life were spent on the road. Now retired, having completed his last run to Adelaide in 2016, the Miners Rest local was inducted into the Shell Rimula Wall of Fame over the weekend. As one of the road transport industry\u2019s highest honours, the award celebrates service and achievement […]<\/p>\n